Jugoton
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Jugoton was the largest record label and chain record store in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia based in Zagreb, Socialist Republic of Croatia.
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[edit] History
Jugoton was formed in 1947. It's notable for releasing some of the most important former Yugoslav pop and rock records including some albums of Bijelo Dugme, Azra, Električni Orgazam, Idoli, Haustor and certain Leb i Sol albums, as well as the influential compilation album Paket Aranžman. Jugoton signed most of the eminent ex-Yugoslav artists, and also released some of the most important international pop and rock stars for the domestic market including the albums by The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Rolling Stones, Madonna, U2, David Bowie, Eurythmics, Kate Bush, Public Image Limited, Kraftwerk, Queen, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden and others. As well, the company owned a widespread network of record shops across SFR Yugoslavia.
Many artists that represented Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest were signed with Jugoton including the Eurovision Song Contest 1989 winners Riva.
With the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1991, the name of the company became Croatia Records.
[edit] Competition
Other major labels in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were: PGP-RTB (later renamed to PGP-RTS) from Belgrade ; Suzy from Zagreb; Diskoton from Sarajevo; ZKP RTLJ from Ljubljana and others.
[edit] Yugonostalgia
The former Jugoton's record shop located in the main Shopping Mall in Skopje (Gradski Trgovski Centar), Republic of Macedonia still operates under the same name managed by the Macedonian record label Lithium Records[1]
[edit] Yugoton
Jugoton was especially popular among the youths behind the Iron Curtain who couldn't travel to western countries and rarely had access to western music. One of the solutions to obtaining western music was to go shopping in Socialist Yugoslavia which was not an Eastern Bloc country, but a member of the Non-Aligned Movement largely opened to western influences. Thus the Yugoslav records gained a cult status in Eastern Europe and became a sort of symbol of the western popular culture. As a tribute to Jugoton, an album called Yugoton[2] was released in Poland in 2001 by ZIC-ZAC Music Company and BMG Poland. It contains cover versions of popular ex-Yugoslav acts such as Električni Orgazam, Idoli, Bajaga i Instruktori, Haustor, Prljavo Kazalište and Parni Valjak. The songs were performed in Polish by the local artists: Katarzyna Nosowska, Paweł Kukiz, Olaf Deriglasoff, Ryszard „Tymon” Tymański and others. The front cover of the CD features the Polish artists together with their guests Vlada Divljan of Idoli, and Darko Rundek of Haustor.
Another reference to Yugoslav records and Jugoton can be found in the film Sonnenallee (which takes place in the former East Germany), in the scene with the record smuggler.
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[edit] External links
| Pop and rock music of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
| Music of Yugoslavia - SFR Yugoslav pop and rock scene - Yugoslav Band Aid (YU Rock Misija) - Yugoslavia in the Eurovision Song Contest |
| Record labels |
| Jugoton - PGP RTB - Suzy Records - Diskoton - ZKP RTLJ - Jugodisk |
